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Definition of quiddity

the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

Similar Words: haecceity, quibble, cavil

Derivational Morphology: cavil, carp, chicane, quibble

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